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Monthly Archives: March 2015

I’m writing this blog at the Minneapolis airport as I travel to London, Ontario for this weeks London Swine Conference and do a client farm visit. Both my presentations at the London Conference and my client visit deal with the application of wean-finish facilities for Ontario producers. Read More...

Spring doesn’t officially arrive in southern Minnesota until tomorrow evening, but signs of it are everywhere. I saw pits being pumped in Northwest Iowa this afternoon with dust being generated in the soybean stubble where they were injecting the manure. I’ve also seen cattle feedlots spreading manure and I even had a report of small grains being seeding in this area of Minnesota yesterday. Read More...

USDA released the estimates for the combined US and Canada swine herds this afternoon. The US numbers are based on the quarterly USDA Hogs and Pigs report while the Canadian numbers are from Canada Statistics semi-annual inventory report. US numbers are for December 1 and June 1 while Canadian numbers are for January 1 and July 1. Read More...

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